By implementing messaging technologies, businesses can use a consistent approach to connectivity, decoupling the business application from the complex tasks of handling failures, error recovery, transaction integrity, security, and scalability. IBM® MQ® delivers universal messaging. As explained in this IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide, IBM MQ provides simple, rapid, reliable, and secure transport of messages and data offering flexible connectivity for applications, web services, and other programming environments. IBM MQ is the market-leading, message-oriented middleware product. It delivers a reliable and proven universal messaging backbone for almost 10,000 organizations of different sizes, spanning many industries around the world.

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By implementing messaging technologies, businesses can use a consistent approach to connectivity, decoupling the business application from the complex tasks of handling failures, error recovery, transaction integrity, security, and scalability. IBM® MQ® provides the universal messaging backbone for service-oriented architecture (SOA) connectivity (Figure 1). It connects virtually any commercial IT system, with support for more than 80 platforms.

IBM MQ includes a choice of APIs and supports the Java™ Message Service (JMS) API. IBM MQ is the market-leading messaging integration middleware product. Originally introduced in 1993 (under the IBM MQSeries® name), IBM MQ provides an available, reliable, scalable, secure, and high-performance transport mechanism to address businesses connectivity requirements.

For related information about this topic, refer to the following IBM Redbooks publication:
IBM MQ V8 Features and Enhancements, SG24-8218-00

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Draft Redpaper, last updated: Tue, 01 Juli 2014